Trades. The Yankee Trader, or the Laughable Game of What d'Ye Buy? By Doctor Busby, circa 1860, boxed game (complete), comprising: 12 hand-coloured engraved cards, depicting various trades, each titled beneath image (shoemaker, tin plate worker, bookseller, apothecary, farmer, barber, musical instruments, butcher, fisherman, baker, tailor, hardware dealer), 71 x 65mm (2.75 x 2.5ins); 72 letterpress cards, 30 x 52mm (1 x 2ins), both sets of cards slightly toned and dusty, and with tartan-patterned versos, occasional light creasing; and printed Explanation leaf (3 vertical folds), housed in original wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid (scratched and spotted) (Qty: 1) A rare and amusing storytelling party game. See: John Johnson Collection at The Bodleian Library, Oxford (Ballam Collection: Games 1860s [17]), theirs lacking one letterpress card.
Trades. The Yankee Trader, or the Laughable Game of What d'Ye Buy? By Doctor Busby, circa 1860, boxed game (complete), comprising: 12 hand-coloured engraved cards, depicting various trades, each titled beneath image (shoemaker, tin plate worker, bookseller, apothecary, farmer, barber, musical instruments, butcher, fisherman, baker, tailor, hardware dealer), 71 x 65mm (2.75 x 2.5ins); 72 letterpress cards, 30 x 52mm (1 x 2ins), both sets of cards slightly toned and dusty, and with tartan-patterned versos, occasional light creasing; and printed Explanation leaf (3 vertical folds), housed in original wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid (scratched and spotted) (Qty: 1) A rare and amusing storytelling party game. See: John Johnson Collection at The Bodleian Library, Oxford (Ballam Collection: Games 1860s [17]), theirs lacking one letterpress card.
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